One Way Ticket | |
Director: | Herbert J. Biberman |
Starring: | Lloyd Nolan Peggy Conklin Walter Connolly |
Cinematography: | Henry Freulich |
Editing: | John Rawlins |
Studio: | Columbia Pictures |
Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
Runtime: | 72 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
One Way Ticket is a 1935 American crime film directed by Herbert Biberman starring Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin and Walter Connolly. The film is based on the 1934 novel One-Way Ticket by Ethel Turner.[1]
It was the directorial debut of Biberman, a playwright and theatre director of Marxist political leanings; following some theatrical success in New York, he signed a two-picture deal with Columbia in 1934, and it was followed by Meet Nero Wolfe in 1936.
A man becomes a robber following the authorities' failure to convict a corrupt banker.[2]
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly good review, judging it to be well acted and describing it as "criticiz[ing] as well as thrill[ing]". Greene drew particular attention to the prison break scene as the film's "one excellent sequence".[3]